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This mosaic comes from the east church at Theodorias (modern Qasr in Libya 🇱🇾) & shows a fish sinuously swimming. Originally, the church had 50 mosaics on its floor. They have now been removed and placed in the nearby, purpose-built museum. 🕰️c540AD 📷 @jonalendering.bsky.social #MosaicMonday
Everyone who was at #NCS2026 should consider putting in papers for MAMO 2027 in Oxford! Join us!
MAMO Conference 2027❗It's here! The Call For Papers for MAMO 2027❗ - Seeking a broad range of proposals for papers and events, focusing on aspects of medievalism in the modern world. - Featuring some very special events and keynotes... - You can find a plaintext version of this CFP at shorturl.at/0FJjY.
Medievalists, I'm proposing a CfP for a couple of sessions for @imc-leeds.bsky.social on "Multilingualism in the Global Middle Ages. Creating Communities through Inclusion and Exclusion". Please share and apply (and check out the beautiful 12th c. quadrilingual epitaph from Palermo) #medievalsky
August is the time for threshing and winnowing the grain. #medievalcalendar BL Add MS 18852; the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile' or the 'Hours of Joanna the Mad'; 1486-1506 CE; Bruges; ff.8v-9r @blmedieval.bsky.social
CFP for Leeds IMC 2027: Geography and Cosmography in Non-Historical Texts 📅 05-08.07.2027 📍 Leeds (UK) Deadline: 01.09.2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #LeedsIMC2027 #MedievalSky
New blogpost from me in which I present my IMC paper from this year for anyone who wasn't able to attend and might be interested. longhairedkingsblog.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/i...
IMC 2026 Debrief Part 1: Pre-Christian Beliefs in Early Medieval FrisiaThis year I (properly) attended the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds again. By “properly attended”, I mean I presented a paper and went to other sessions like …longhairedkingsblog.wordpress.com
Just an illuminated cat catching an illuminated mouse in an illuminated manuscript from around 1300. #bookhistory
Continuing with the animal theme! A new post on an unusual gift in a charter for Marmoutier, an obscure land measure, and the 'small creatures' about to become the monks' neighbours 🐇. alicehicklin.co.uk/2026/07/23/t...
Those Small Creatures Called ConiniThis very short document records a gift made by Géraud Rufus of Talmont, who appeared before the chapter of Marmoutier to gave some land at an unidentified place known as ad Saburas to honour Saint…alicehicklin.co.ukAlice HicklinI’ve (finally) made a blog to share some of the more intriguing charters I encounter 1st up: an 11th-century land sale where the price included “excellent cloth” called zafalbafal, possibly ṣūf al-baḥr, or sea silk, made from the fibres of Mediterranean shells 🐚 alicehicklin.co.uk/2026/07/14/c...
Job Opportunity! University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Arts of the Medieval World - History of Art Department networks.h-net.org/jobs/70147/u...
University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Arts of the Medieval World - History of Art Department | H-Netnetworks.h-net.org
Excited to open the call for papers for this strand and roundtable on the history of emotions for next year’s International Medieval Congress in Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social sponsored by @northwestmedieval.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians #imc2027
🔥⚔️ THE CRUSADES WERE NOT THE ENTIRE MEDIEVAL MIDDLE EAST! Our first Gloucester special sees @nicmorton.bsky.social rage that Crusades were a small part. Civilisations carried on, enemies traded and empires rose and fell. And mice making boats from pomegranates. 🐭🍎⛵ 🎧6 Aug #Medieval #History
Ancient history has gone global. This is surely the most exciting development in the field in the last 30 years! But what "global antiquity" is and how we should study it—and why anyone should care—are all open (and challenging) questions. Some thoughts on all of this for @aeon.co.
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An excellent, supportive venue for sharing research, with wonderful convenors. If you are early career, consider sending in a proposal! #medievalsky #leedsmedievalstudies
The Long Middle AgesThe Long Middle Ages is back for another seminar series in Autumn 2026 at @leedsims.bsky.social ! If you are interested in participating, please send us an abstract (250 words) and a short bio to thelongmiddlesages@gmail.com by Monday 17th August! #medievalsky #thelongmiddleages
Come and do #DH at Leeds! #digitalhumanities #digitalmedievalstudies #medievalsky
Institute for Medieval Studies LeedsLectureship here at Leeds in English Language with focus on digital humanities. Could suit a medievalist? jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
I'm going to be Lecturer in Global Medieval History at the University of Leeds for the foreseeable, which is both a surprising and delightful thing to announce!
Normans at #IMC2027! Call for papers sponsored by the Battle Conference. Full details in the alt text and pasted in successive posts. Deadline for abstracts 15 Sept. #medievalsky #archaeology #skystorians @imc-leeds.bsky.social
🏺Anyway, have an artefact from Scotland and on display at the National Museum of Scotland for your troubles. A Pictish stone carving of a goose and fish. 📜 www.nms.ac.uk/collections/...
One of Bornholm's oldest and largest round churches, Østerlars kirke. Oldest bits from the 12th c. Dedicated to St Lawrence (Lars). Some of the church seems to have been used for military defense. The main round section has 3 levels that you can climb up to using the staircase in the wall!
It was great to present at the Leeds IMC last week and to hear so many great presentations on topics from dragons to sheriffs, and to see at least one powerpoint communicate research findings through memes! The social events were fun too. I enjoyed meeting everyone, hopefully I’ll come again!
Leeds IMC 2027 CALL FOR PAPERS @jonasza4.bsky.social and I are organising more sessions for next year's Leeds IMC - Check out our CfP here on "Communities of the Realm: Shaping Thirteenth Century Norway"